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NETGEAR genie App
Create a Bypass Account Using the genie App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Set the Parental Controls Filtering Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Set the Parental Controls Filtering Level for Your Router Network. . . . . . . . 31
Set Parental Controls Filtering Levels for Each Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 4 Remotely Access Your Router
Enable Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Remotely Manage Your Router Using the genie App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enable Your Router to Work with Amazon Alexa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Link the NETGEAR Skill to Your Alexa App. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Alexa Commands Supported by NETGEAR Routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 5 Share Files
Access Files on a USB Storage Device Connected to the Router . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Upload Files From Your Mobile Device to Your USB Storage Device . . . . . . . . . 38
Download Files From USB Storage Device Connected to the Router . . . . . . . . 39
View Files Downloaded From Your USB Storage Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Send Files With Turbo Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Enable or Disable the Turbo Transfer Power Saving Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
View or Delete the Turbo Transfer History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 6 Use MyMedia to Play and Share Media Files
Play Media Files From Your Home Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Share Media With Chromecast Using the Mobile genie App. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Change the MyMedia Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Restart the MyMedia Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Refresh the MyMedia Source Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Prevent Devices on the Network From Accessing Your Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Prevent Media Files From Playing on Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 7 Administration
Register Your NETGEAR Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Reboot Your Router. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
View the genie Mobile App Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
View the Router Model Number or Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
View the Local and Remote Access List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
View the Router Serial Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56